You didn’t get his number by any chance?

All Taxis (should) carry the sign displaying charges. One of the lines on this says ‘You are entitled to …. a quiet journey’

Morning Darling! Have you calmed down yet? How is the head?

What happened to your selective hearing? You know if you let them think you agree with them, when they first start, they have no argument to continue. How do you think I managed to survive and still do here in ‘wee Norn Iron’!

Now would you like a Tract?

Nope, first thing I thought of when I got into the house was that I should have got it, but the alcohol was addling my brain cells…

@ mum - got offered a tract, a CD & a DVD - seems that they are embracing technology these days in delivering their message.

Still annoyed - he had no right to keep hassling me like that when i obviously didn’t agree. Thank fuck the roads were quiet and the journey was reasonably quick.

I hear you, but consider this : at least he wasn’t a born again, racist, homophobic, hasn’t had a shower in 3 weeks taxi driver! I’ve been driven home by him!

How inconsiderate of you: the poor man will go straight to hell for not converting you! That’s the rule for born again cretin, isn’t it?

Hehe - I think we should revisit the Science of Taxi Getting rules to account for this.
Perhaps he wanted to give you a value-added service.

This sounds like out and out bullying. What is he going to achieve by ranting, aggrevating and angering his passengers? High blood pressure, cranky passengars, perhaps a dig from an irate one. Perhaps he’s converted peeps before - I dunno.

Actually, when you think of it, being a taxi driver is the perfect part-time job for an evangelist. Most people fight to get a taxi in Dublin (if they are not practitioners of Taxi-Gettingology) and will listen to an shite on the journey home.

In stark contrast (and just to make you jealous) my taxi driver told me stories how he used to live in crime-free Singapore and of almost being conscripted in South Africa. You jealous yet?

Very jealous! I think I was being punished by the God of Taxis for sharing the sacred secrets of taxi-getting… But I got my revenge by refusing to tithe my 10% to the driver

Next time, just say that not only have you been saved, but you have made incremental backups…

fyi It’s ok to tell a taxi driver to shut up. It’s written on the yellow card thingies.

Religion aside, I really don’t like chatty taxi drivers. I know that sounds terrible, but most of the time I just want to get from A to B without the small talk shite.

If you decide to be ‘born again’ please find some else! There is no way I could have you the size you are now.

@Stewart - big lol - but then I’d prolly have to explain that unless he was a geek!!

@Eoghan - I vary, you saw how chatty I was last night, so I was happy to continue in the taxi until he got onto this topic…

@Grannymar - I always thought it was the worst phrase - just the mental image that ‘being born again’ casts up is gross!

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I just tell those asses that the Bible explicitly states that zealotry is verboten. Can’t remember exactly where it is ’cause I’m still somewhat drunk from the festival I was at, but I’m sure you’ll be able to find the verse.

I think I got that driver on Friday - I was yapping away to my gfriend so he didn’t get a word in, but as I was getting out he gave me a leaflet with a smug “Here, I think you need this…” comment. pfff.

@Keith - I must find that quote from the bible, but then they’re already experts in twisting the book to suit their moods - I mean, I’ve read it and the first half is all about slaughtering people in the name of the lord - but they conveniently ignore all this and concentrate on the messages from the second half - which conveniently aren’t much better.

@olivier - missed your comment earlier - lovely use of language! I also felt like telling him that if heaven was going to be stocked with people like him that I’d rather be in hell having fun!

@Stewart - he looked totally normal and I thought I was going to have a great chat until he started into all the shite. I’d got into the front of the taxi as well, so I couldn’t even close my eyes and ignore him.

Valid tip BTW - if you’re a woman travelling in a taxi on your own, then always get into the front. Doors in the rear could be ‘child-locked’ by a fake taxi driver and you wouldn’t be able to get out. Same can’t be done in the front. Always keep your keeps in your hand to, they will scratch a face just lovely if attacked…

i must blog on the science of taxis later in the week….

Well put Elly. In this day and age the last thing anyone should be hearing is an ear-full of hell and damnation. I always thought that religion was supposed to be a way to quietly reflect on your thoughts with the deity of your choice then I claimed agnostic status and open the floodgates! I’ve seen one or two taxis going around in recent years with those Christian community abstract fish-like symbols and always wondered why, I guess it’s a warning to potential punters.

@Jonathan - Thanks. I feel the same way, having grown up with religion around me, I’ve made an informed decision about the path that I have chosen in this life. No-one should have the right to ‘push’ their opinions on me, nor I on them (anyone disagreeing with what I say can easily unsubscribe from my blog).

So sorry that you had to put up with those born again pratts. It´s that Jesus guy´s fault. He told them to go out and bring the “good news”. What difference is it to us if he died to pay for our sins? We didn´t ask him to. An fuck it if we burn in hell for ever and ever and ever and……..shit go back and find out what I have to do to be saved you stupid drunken plonker!

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